A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

by Philip Dray

Book Overview

A book on a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism and eventually inspiring a powerful novella by Stephen Crane.

On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim had been accused of sexually assaulting the beautiful but mysterious Lena McMahon, the daughter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374194416
• ISBN13: 9780374194413
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"